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Exploring the German Empire: A Historical Quiz

This quiz tests your knowledge about the history, government, and social aspects of the German Empire. Answer questions related to its political structure, key events, and cultural background.

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1 Influence of Prussian ________, the Empire’s colonial efforts and its vigorous, competitive industrial prowess caused a negative view of the state.

2 What region does German Empire belong to?

3 Before unification, German territory was made up of 26 ________.

4 What type of government does German Empire have?

5 What is the capital of the German Empire?

6 In 1918, at the ________, the Bolshevik government gave Germany and the Ottoman Empire an enormous territorial settlement in exchange for an end to war on the eastern front.

7 Who of the following is/was the leader of the German Empire?

8 The German textiles and metal industries had by the beginning of the ________ surpassed those of Britain in organization and technical efficiency and usurped British manufacturers in the domestic market.

9 Several of these states had gained sovereignty following the dissolution of the ________.

10 What religion does the German Empire adhere to?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Nassau-class battleships laid down in 1907 were the first class of German dreadnoughts built in response to the British HMS Dreadnought.
  • the establishment of Mahendra Pratap's Provisional Government of India was one of the reasons that the Rowlatt Commission was set up to investigate German and Bolshevik links to nationalist terrorism in British India.
  • the first class Kaunas Fortress was captured by German forces in 1915 after eleven days of fighting.
  • the Kommissarische Reichsregierung is a label for multiple groups and individuals in Germany and elsewhere who assert that the German Empire continues to exist in its pre-World War II borders.
  • the French occupation of Tunisia in 1881 (troops pictured) received the approval of both Great Britain and Germany, but that Italy protested in vain.
  • during the Herero and Nama uprising of 1904/05, the settlement of Seeis in central Namibia was the location of two clashes between imperial Germany and the Herero.
  • the German battleship SMS König sank the Russian battleship Slava during Operation Albion in 1917.
  • the Soviets scuttled the battleship Svobodnaya Rossiia (pictured) on 19 June 1918 in Novorossiysk harbor rather than turn her over to the Germans as required by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
  • the four Brandenburg class battleships were the first ocean-going battleships built by the German Imperial Navy.
  • the representatives at the Vilnius Conference in 1917 elected a 20-member Council of Lithuania to negotiate with the Germans for the independence of Lithuania.
  • when the German U-boat UB-13 sank the neutral Dutch ocean liner Tubantia in March 1916, one of the German excuses was that the torpedo had been fired ten days before and just happened to hit the ship.
  • when the German U-boat UB-8 was transferred to the Bulgarian Navy in May 1916, she became the first ever Bulgarian submarine.
  • while chartered to the United States Army during World War I, SS Kentuckian's Naval Armed Guard gun crew destroyed a running German torpedo headed for another ship.
  • when torpedoed in May 1915 by German submarine UB-8, SS Merion was disguised as the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Tiger.
  • when German U-boat UB-3 disappeared on her first patrol in May 1915, she was the first of her class to be lost.
  • the theme of the Kyffhäuser Monument suggests a connection between the Holy Roman and German Empires.
  • three different emperors ruled over the German Empire during 1888, the Year of the Three Emperors.
  • as of 2008, there is no treaty covering the border between Botswana and Namibia, which remains as defined in a treaty signed between the British and German Empires in 1890.
  • all Imperial German Navy light cruisers of the First World War were patterned after the German Gazelle-class light cruiser (pictured), designed in 1895–96.
  • Jüri Vilms, a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee, issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence in February 1918, and was executed by German troops less than two months later.
  • Judeopolonia was a proposed buffer state between the Russian and German Empires with a projected population of 30 million Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians, Latvians, and Baltic Germans.
  • Martin-Paul Samba went from being a favoured German collaborator to a feared rebel leader in colonial Cameroon.
  • Henri Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the Times, averted a war between the French Third Republic and the German Empire in 1875.
  • World War I German U-boat UB-12 was credited with sinking her final ship two months after she disappeared in the North Sea.
  • Germany still held 1.2 million Russian prisoners of war in December 1918, nine months after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk obliged it to release them.
  • World War I German U-boat UB-10 was credited with sinking 23 ships in a 13-day span in July and August 1915.
  • Mittelafrika was a prospective colony of the German Empire, articulating their aim to annex the land area stretching across Africa from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.
  • Moshe Smoira, the first President of the Supreme Court of Israel, was wounded during the First World War while fighting for the German Empire.
  • SMS Westfalen led the retreat of the German High Seas Fleet from the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916.
  • Three Emperors' Corner is a former tripoint between the Austrian Empire, German Empire and the Russian Empire, created in the late 19th century in the aftermath of the partitions of Poland.
  • after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Polish II Corps in Russia refused to surrender to the Germans.
  • SMS Weißenburg, a German pre-dreadnought battleship, was sold to the Ottoman Navy, and later came to the rescue of the battlecruiser Goeben, another former German warship in Ottoman service.
  • SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm (pictured), a German-built pre-dreadnought battleship, was sold to the Ottoman Empire, renamed Heireddin Barbarossa, and sunk by a British submarine during World War I.
  • Rudolf Duala Manga Bell was organising a colony-wide revolt against the German Empire in Cameroon when he was executed for high treason in 1914.
  • SMS Brandenburg (pictured), launched on 21 September 1891, was the first pre-dreadnought battleship built for the German Imperial Navy.
  • German U-boat UB-4 was sunk in August 1915 by a fishing smack.
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